Boston can now only tie the Pens in ROW, and one more Pens ROW or Habs fail to ROW will accomplish the same. Boston at best can negate the head to head tiebreak with a regulation win (since the first game in the city with the extra game is tossed), but goal differential is 14 goals in the Pens favor. So the net effect is 6 to clinch over the Bruins. Montreal hosts the Flyers on Monday, and Boston hosts Ottawa. Assuming they both win, a Pens win in regulation over the Habs on Wednesday would reduce the magic number over the Habs to 3, and a Pens win after regulation would reduce it to 4.

All told, the only other teams Pens have not clinched the ROW tiebreak on: Toronto (max 30), Chicago (max 33) and Anaheim (Max 29 - a push - with no head to head, Pens would win the goal differential - have an 18 goal edge, +39 to +21)

IF the Pens beat Mtl on Wed in regulation or overtime... The Pens would have 66 points and ROW=30. Mtl would still have 57 points, with 5 games remaining - meaning 67 maximum points. Mtl would still have ROW=23. Their max ROW would be 28 - which means the Pens would already own the tie-breaker.

The Pens would only need to tie Mtl. Since Mtl can only get 67 points, the Pens' magic number over Mtl would be 1.

IF the Pens beat Mtl on Wed in regulation or overtime... The Pens would have 66 points and ROW=30. Mtl would still have 57 points, with 5 games remaining - meaning 67 maximum points. Mtl would still have ROW=23. Their max ROW would be 28 - which means the Pens would already own the tie-breaker.

The Pens would only need to tie Mtl. Since Mtl can only get 67 points, the Pens' magic number over Mtl would be 1.

...IF the Pens were to win in regulation/overtime on Wed.

If Montreal fails to win in Reg/OT, Pens will clinch the ROW tiebreaker. I.e. even if Mtl wins a shootout, Pens would still clinch tiebreak.

The Leafs loss to Washington eliminated them from the #1 seed outright (in addition to removing the last team that had a chance to surpass the Pens current 29 ROW total) with a new max of 63 points (Pens at 64).

A regulation win over the Habs would reduce the number to clinch over them to 1 point.

ExPatriatePen wrote:See of you can answer this question without looking it up:

Out of the last ten Presidents Cup Throphy winners, how many went on to win the Stanley Cup?

Detroit in 08

Kind of interesting that only one out of ten was able to convert huh?

Yeah, some say it is a curse but they say the same about touching the conference trophies as well. Pens are 3-0 in the cup final when touching the trophy. I think Badger Bob was the one who pushed Mario to do it saying something like you never know if you are ever going to get back here again.

ExPatriatePen wrote:See of you can answer this question without looking it up:

Out of the last ten Presidents Cup Throphy winners, how many went on to win the Stanley Cup?

Detroit in 08

Kind of interesting that only one out of ten was able to convert huh?

Yeah, some say it is a curse but they say the same about touching the conference trophies as well. Pens are 3-0 in the cup final when touching the trophy. I think Badger Bob was the one who pushed Mario to do it saying something like you never know if you are ever going to get back here again.

Well, superstition is one thing. But I wouldn't put the fact that only one out of the last ten PC winners has won the SC in the superstition category.

That's a statistical ananomoly. IMHO anyway.

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